Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, the distributed SQL database built to survive anything and scale without limits, and Cockroach Continuum, t…
40:12113 views · 1w ago · 40:12
Guest: Justin Cosnett
In iGaming, there's no room for error: transactions are bank-level regulated, traffic spikes are massive and unpredictable, and a minute of downtime means a customer lost to a competitor for good. It's one of the most demanding environments in app architecture and this episode goes inside it.
46:35241 views · 2w ago · 46:35
Guest: Cockroach Continuum Overview
What happens when AI agents create thousands of short-lived databases, but traditional clusters are sized for peak traffic? In this webinar, we introduce Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud platform designed to bring an organization’s database estate together while reducing idle infrastructure. The speakers explain how virtual clusters share capacity, how Plenum separates compute from storage, and how consumption-based pricing aligns costs with usage.
Topics: Session Introduction & Overview · The Shift to Agentic Workloads & Machine Rhythms · Case Study: Ephemeral App Generation · Global Compute Shortages & Infrastructure Limits · Overprovisioning Waste in Traditional Database Estates · How Cockroach Continuum Solves Waste
35:34375 views · 1mo ago · 35:34
Guests: Introducing Cockroach Continuum, Tara Jana
This episode marks a big moment for Cockroach Labs, a refreshed brand and the introduction of Cockroach Continuum! David Joy sits down with Tara Jana (TJ), who joined Cockroach Labs earlier this year and has been deep in the work behind everything you're about to hear.
9:14405 views · 1mo ago · 9:14
Guests: Estate Economics, Cockroach Continuum
Rob Reid introduces the "Estate Economics" demo, which highlights how Cockroach Continuum uses cluster virtualization and Cockroach Plenum disaggregated storage to cut database costs. By consolidating physical clusters into virtual ones on a private host, organizations can increase CPU utilization, control noisy neighbors, and reduce monthly infrastructure spend by approximately 48%.
8:24403 views · 1mo ago · 8:24
Rob Reid introduces Cockroach Aegis, an agentic framework designed to help database administrators operate, optimize, and troubleshoot large database estates. Setting up a local CockroachDB cluster on Kubernetes with intentionally misconfigured settings and a missing index, he shows how Aegis uses automated check-ins, internal memory, and custom alerts to detect issues and recommend fixes.
9:50245 views · 1mo ago · 9:50
Guest: AI Migration Assistant
Rob Reid demonstrates how to use the AI Migration Assistant, part of the MOLT suite of tools, to migrate a PostgreSQL database into CockroachDB. He guides viewers through the step-by-step process, starting by creating a CockroachDB cluster target and connecting both source and target databases. The assistant extracts the schema, tokenizes sensitive data to protect privacy during LLM processing, converts schema syntaxes, and generates an automated migration plan.
6:31320 views · 1mo ago · 6:31
Guests: Getting Started, Cockroach Continuum
Get your first look at Cockroach Continuum from Rob Reid himself. Cockroach Continuum is a new operating model built on CockroachDB, rethinking infrastructure assignment for a world run by agents. Cockroach Continuum combines correctness, estate-scale elasticity, and category-leading resilience.
59:12211 views · 1mo ago · 59:12
AI agents spend much of their time reading and searching code, consuming huge numbers of tokens in the process. So how can you make agentic coding workflows more efficient? Watch this on demand session from Cockroach Labs and Takara.ai to explore how smarter code retrieval can reduce token consumption and help bring down the cost of agentic development.
12:35134 views · 2mo ago · 12:35
Learn how to configure CockroachDB to emulate a blockchain utilizing its rich SQL and PL/pgSQL support. In this demo, Rob Reid builds a publicly joinable cluster using a Kubernetes operator combined with the Nebula network overlay. Watch step-by-step as he implements blockchain primitives alongside what he terms "smart(ish) contracts" for escrow, royalty splits, and sealed bidding auctions.
Topics: Overview of blockchain emulation using CockroachDB · Building a publicly joinable cluster with Kubernetes and Nebula · Creating blockchain primitives · Inserting some test data · Smart(ish) Contract: Escrow accounts and fund verification · Smart(ish) Contract: Royalty splits using basis points
44:59171 views · 2mo ago · 44:59
Guests: Perry Krug, David Joy
Perry Krug has been close to databases his entire career — from Couchbase in the NoSQL era to three years at Pinecone working on vector search. In this conversation with David Joy, the two database industry experts discuss the shifts they’ve witnessed, for better or worse, and why at the end of the day, we will always love the database.
4:3983 views · 2mo ago · 4:39
Guest: Off Label
In this video, we explore how you can leverage syncless changefeeds to transform CockroachDB into a central orchestration hub and message bus for your microservices architecture. What We Cover The Core Concept: How database writes can automatically trigger event-driven push notifications to downstream systems (in our case, microservices), creating a graph of communication without direct wiring.
Topics: Conceptual Overview · Demo Setup · Demo · Performance and Scale Testing · Summary and Key Takeaways
3:2493 views · 2mo ago · 3:24
Guest: Off Label
In this video, we explore an unconventional ("off-label") use case for CockroachDB... CockroachDB fundamentally stores data in a distributed way, so it already has all the built-in ingredients needed to manage and scale a file system across multiple regions.
Topics: Cluster and Table Architecture · Data Insertion and Server Setup · Running Demo · Summary and Key Takeaways
51:18699 views · 2mo ago · 51:18
Guest: Mike Stonebraker
Modern software is composed of long-running, multi-step workflows spanning AI agents, microservices, databases, APIs, and humans. As applications become more distributed and autonomous, workflow orchestration and durability are becoming dominant architectural concerns.
25:29174 views · 3mo ago · 25:29
Guest: RoachFest London
Adam B. Struck CEO & Co-Founder, Memori Labs Jordan Legg Chief AI Officer, Takara Rob Reid, Techical Evangelist Cockroach Labs
20:32158 views · 3mo ago · 20:32
Guest: RoachFest London
Most disaster recovery plans are tested in staging. Form3 tests theirs in production. In this session, Kevin Holditch, VP of Engineering at Form3, shares how the company evolved from a traditional AWS-based platform into a cloud-agnostic, active/active/active architecture spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure using CockroachDB, Kubernetes, NATS, and Go. The platform is designed to survive the loss of an entire cloud provider without customer impact.
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